Numerous philanthropic, charitable and other projects include:
Convent & Santa Rosa de Lima Macau --1962
Low Cost Home Ownership and Financing Schemes Hong Kong -- 1964-93
Eric Hotung Trust Fund for Secondary education -- 1965
Initial funding for restoration of Castle Mailberg and Church of St. John the Baptist -- 1974
Radio stations for Marginados (underprivileged youth) Costa Rica -- 1975
Georgetown University Trauma Team for Vietnamese refugees in Cambodia and other projects -- 1978
Intercultural Center Georgetown University (joint sponsorship with U.S. Federal Government) -- 1980
Brathay Expedition and Operation Drake -- 1980
Roma Institum Historicum, S.J., publisher of the publication of the Bibliographie SUR, L'Historie de la Compaign de Jesus by Lazio Polgar, S.J. 1983 ~ 4 volumes
Initiated visit of Cardinal Sin of the Philippines to China --1984
US-China Trade Conference at US Senate (Advocating unconditional renewal of China's Most Favored Nation trading status) -- 1987
Co-sponsor (with US-China Business Council) conference on Reassessing US-China Ties: Economic Policy and the Role of Business at US State Dept. -- 1990
Co-host (with US national Committee on US-China Relations) to Chinese Mayors' Delegation led by the present Premier Zhu Rongji at US Senate and State Dept. -- 1990
Provided the Hotung Pavilion, Shanghai Museum, and a bronze vessel of great antiquity to the Bronze Gallery of the Museum -- 1996
Donation of a forest of stone plaques at the Waihai Cemetery to memorialize the fallen youth of both sides of the Xuzhou Waihai Campaign (1984) --1999
Donation to build a Chinese Scholar's Garden on the Staten Island, New York -- 1999
Purchased a former Royal Australian Navy survey vessel, renamed it m.v. "Patricia .Anne Hotung" Donated the vessel to transport about 12,000 refugees from West Timor to East Timor -- 2000
Donated a free clinic building in Dili, East Timor, for benefit of the Timorese people --2000
Setup "Hotung Special Fund" for the protection of Mothers And Infants of the LongSheng County, Guangxi, China -- 2000 October
Sponsored school projects in Qinghai Province, Ningxia Province and Liaoning province -- 2000
Cultural Relics Adminstration to publish an encylopedia of the 20th Century Chinese Art -- 1998
Founding Benefactor, The East Timor Good Samaritan Foundation, Dili East Timor -- 2000
Donated an optical coherence tomography (OCT) scanner to the Eye Hospital of the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing -- 2000
Donated to the Eric Hotung International Law Center, Georgetown University, Washington DC-- 2000
Set up Korea Eric Hotung Fund for the children of North Korea -- 2000
Funding and construction for a large building which accommodates 150 students from remote areas of Timor-Leste -- 2002
Donated to hire a plane to carry urgently needed supplies and equipment to Sri Lanka for the Tsunami Relief (through SES, UK) -- 2005
Established "Eric Hotung Research Fellowships" to promote research and to enhance the research profile of the School of Law of the University of Canterburry, New Zealand -- 2005
 
 
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